--- title: His Majesty signed to one of his suite, who immediately approached,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: His Majesty signed to one of his suite, who immediately approached, and counted from a bag which he carried under his arm thirty shining new Gulden, and laid them on the table. Who acts: Majesty, suite, arm. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [A Historical Tale., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/) / 39 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 39 His Majesty signed to one of his suite, who immediately approached, and counted from a bag which he carried under his arm thirty shining new Gulden, and laid them on the table. **Who acts:** Majesty, suite, arm · **What happens:** sign, approach, count, carry, shine, lay · **To what, where:** one, bag, arm, new Gulden, prisoners, table This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, suite, arm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:23:39 # text = His Majesty signed to one of his suite, who immediately approached, and counted from a bag which he carried under his arm thirty shining new Gulden, and laid them on the table. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 signed sign VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 suite suite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 approached approach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 flat _ _ 26 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Gulden Gulden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sign** | past | king's Majesty | | one of king's suite | | | | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | | 2 | **approach** | past | king's suite | | | | | immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **count** | participle | king's Majesty *not said here* | | | a bag | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **carry** | past | Majesty | a bag | | king's arm | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 5 | **shine** | gerund | king's arm *not said here* | new Gulden | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gulden=Theme | | 6 | **lay** | past | king's Majesty *not said here* | prisoners *= prisoner* | | the table | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=Destination | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/40/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/)